Yes, special characters such as & and < must be escaped if they appear in
text, so that they are not treated as markup. You are doing the right thing.

Michael Kay 

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> From: shishir.srivastava@xxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:shishir.srivastava@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 21 May 2004 11:43
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Invalid character reference while parsing
> 
> Hi All,
> I create a text node in an xml document which might contain 
> characters like
> "&"  and <(angle brackets) to say atleast.
> Now when this is parsed by xslt parser it throws an error saying
> 
> "could not parse input XML document
> SAX Exception
> Invalid character in reference"
> 
> what i did --
> at the time of generation of node ,i look for "&" and "angle 
> brackets" in
> data and replace these characters.
> then it works fine.
> 
> but i really want to know is this the best method to achieve this?
> or we have any better practice?
> 
> I am using XML4J, as  XML processor, and LotusXSL as xslt parser.
> 
> Thanks & Regards
> ___________________________
> Shishir Srivastava
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